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And Rachel said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before you; for I am with child. Nevertheless he searched, but did not find the images.

And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha (the Pillar of Witness); but Jacob called it Galead (Gilead).

And he said to him. Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel (the Prince of God); for you have proved your strength wrestling with an angel and with man, and have prevailed.

But Jacob said to him, If now I have found mercy in your sight, then receive my present from my hands; because now I have seen your face, as I saw the face of an angel, and you were pleased with me.

But Jacob said. My lord knows that the children are too young, and that the flocks and herds with young are with me; and if I should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

And Esau said to him, Let me leave with you some of the men that are with me. But Jacob said, What need have I for them? Let me find mercy in the sight of my lord.

Ask me as much as you wish, both dowry and gifts, and I will give you according as you shall say to me; but give me this girl to wife.

But on this condition will we consent to you: that you will become like us, and circumcise every male as we are circumcised;

But if you will not hearken to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and we will be gone.

But only on this condition will the men consent to dwell with us, to become one people, when every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

But they said, Our sister has been treated like a harlot.

And God said to him. Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name; so he called his name Israel.

And it came to pass, as her soul was departing and she was dying, she called the childs name Bar-kebai (the Son of My Sorrow); but his father called him Benjamin (the Son of My Right Hand).

And his brothers envied him; but his father observed the sayings.

And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood; throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not harm him; that he might deliver him from their hands, and bring him back to his father.

And all his sons and all his daughters made an effort to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, I will go down to Sheol, to my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Arlemite, to receive the pledge from the womans hand; but he could not find her.

And Judah said, Let her keep the pledge, lest I be laughed at; behold, I sent this kid, but you could not find her.

But he refused, and said to his masters wife, Behold, my master does not know what he has in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge;

And she caught him by his garment, and said to him, Lie with me; but he left the garment in her hands, and fled, and got out to the street.